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In Memoriam: Dr. H. Ralph Schumacher Jr.

Simon M. Helfgott, MD  |  August 14, 2017

Dr. Schumacher leaves behind his wife of 54 years, Elizabeth Jean Swisher Schumacher, his two daughters, Heidi Wilson and Kaethe Schumacher, and three grandchildren. Rheumatology has lost a treasured colleague who will be fondly remembered with admiration and deeply missed.

Note: Also see the profile on Dr. Schumacher published in The Rheumatologist in January 2010.

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